This Project Grant award of $273,424, provided by the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program, supports research to develop advanced, user-friendly assistive artificial intelligence (AI) systems that enable individuals with severe movement disabilities to control robotic devices. The University of Rhode Island, the awardee, will pursue three key research thrusts: 1) optimizing user agency and satisfaction features for end-users interacting with robotic arms...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR, CFDA 93.433) to Carnegie Mellon University aims to increase the accessibility of delivery robots. The $200,000 award supports technical advances in robot physical design, robot behaviors, and delivery methods, as well as efforts to facilitate delivery robot data sharing to support independent mobility. Key expected outputs include new findings, code, guidance, and...
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), a program under the Administration for Community Living (ACL), awarded a $160,000 Project Grant (CFDA 93.433) to investigate novel home-based telerehabilitation systems integrated with rehabilitation robots for stroke survivors with upper limb dysfunctions. The award period is from Sep 1, 2023 to Aug 31, 2024. The project aims to develop and evaluate innovative rehabilitation technologies to...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) provides $249,999 to the University of Pittsburgh to develop community and training pathways for smart technology applications. The project aims to translate research into real-world solutions that improve the lives of people with disabilities. Key deliverables include technological innovations, intervention protocols, research studies, training programs, and...
This $140,000 Project Grant award from the Administration for Community Living's (ACL) National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) program (CFDA 93.433) will support the development of "Augmented Reality Enhanced Supported Employment for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities". The project aims to improve employment outcomes for this population through the use of augmented reality technologies. Funded from...
This $800,000 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research at Florida Atlantic University to develop technology enabling disabled individuals to control advanced prosthetic devices. Specifically, the grant will support exploration of novel bimodal skin sensors, investigation of machine learning algorithms to classify user intent, and creation of a reinforcement learning paradigm for customized muscle training exercises. The goal is to empower those with upper limb deficiencies to...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), is funding the development and demonstration of a Social, Assistive Mobile Manipulator (SAMM) software suite. The $399,988 award to Charles River Analytics, Inc. will prototype an assistive technology that integrates a commercially available robotic system with a novel software framework for manipulation,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) aims to develop stable and intuitive control of a robotic arm and hand using electrocorticography (ECoG) signals. The $1,311,848 award, effective August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2029, will enable paralyzed patients to directly control a complex robotic limb to perform clinically relevant reaching, grasping, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to enhance the understanding of human motor learning and develop movement-assistive robotic technologies to aid in motor rehabilitation and skill acquisition, particularly for complex whole-body tasks like walking. The $798,706 award to Florida State University will focus on simplifying the study of balance and forward propulsion using a single-wheel vehicle model, with the...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $927,171.00 and provided by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), supports research and development on using robots for bathing and skin care assistance. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a novel individual representation of skin-care tasks that can be modified by users...